American embassy in Baghdad
US sending more troops to Iraq to protect embassy
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Dec. 31 that he has decided to immediately dispatch a battalion of the 82nd Airborne Division to Iraq following violent protests at the American embassy in Baghdad.
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US air war on ISIL costing $8.3 million a day: Pentagon
The Pentagon has revised its estimate of the cost of the U.S. air war in Iraq and Syria, saying the price tag for the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) comes to about $8.3 million a day.